Use of shadows on different backgrounds

1. Is there any use for shadows?
2. How do you apply shadow to an element?

Is there any use for shadows?

Shadows add facet and meaning to an image. Without shadows the object may appear plain and boring. Lights and shadows establish the correlation of one object to another and their place in the full scene. The position and strength of the lights and shadows also set the general mood of the subject.

How do you apply shadow to an element?

In CSS, shadows on the boxes of elements are created using the box-shadow property (if you want to add a shadow to the text itself, you need text-shadow ). The box-shadow property takes a number of values: The offset on the x-axis. The offset on the y-axis.